The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06
, M. T., WEDNESDAY APRIL 6, 1887.
Relative TO Bounty.

That section.657 of an act relative to
bounty for killing certain animals, ap-
proved March sth, 1888 be and the same
is hereby amended so as to read as fol-
lows.
From and after the passage of this act
there shall be paid out of the Territorial
Treasury for the killing of the animals
hereinafter mentioned, slain, killed or
caused to be killed in said Territory the
following bounties, viz:
For each bear, three dollars.
For each mountain lion, three dollars.
For each wolf, two dollars.
For each cayote, one dollar.
Provided, that this act shall not apply
to any oft the above named animals that
are killed or caused to be killed within
the limits of any Indian reservation or
National Park; and provided further,
that any person killing or causing to
have been killed any one of the above
named animals shall within thirty days
from the date of killing said animal or
ANIMALS exhibit the entire skin of said
animals, including the tail and the skin
from the forehead, embracing and in
Guiding the ears of each animal, to any
Probate Judge or acting Justice of the
Peace within the county in which the
said animal or animals were killed or
caused to be killed. and shall file his
aftida yit With tho coiI <,R
forth that affiant killed or caused to be
killed the animal or animals from which
the skin or skins were taken and that
the same were killed or caused to be
killed within the bounds of the county
In which the application for the certi-
ticate is made, and were not killed or
caused to be killed within the limits of
any Indian Reservation or National
Park; and the said Probate Judge or
Justice of the Peace shall before issuing
any certificate to any person or persons
for killing any of the above mentioned
animals, require the affidavit of two
respectable freeholder residents of said
county that to the best of their knowl-
edge and belief they were killed or
caused to be killed within the limits of
said county and not upon any Indian
Reservation; and the said Probate Judge
or Justice of the Peace, as the case may
be, shall infinitely examine each skin
presented, in order to prevent fraud,
and should said officer after careful ex-
animation find that the scalp and ears
belonging to each skin have not been
severed, pached or punched, he shall
then and there mark each ear by punch
ing q hole one inch in diameter in the
same in presence of the two witnesses,
and shall have them deliver said skin
to the owner certificate showing the
number and species of skin So punched,
which certificate shall be duly signed
by him in his official capacity, and shall
he attested by the two freeholder wit
nesses; and said officer shall receive for
his services from the party receiving the
certificate the sum of fifty cents for each
bear, ,nountain lion or panther skin so
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cayote skin so punched.
And provided further. that bounty
of ten cents shall be maid for each Prairie
Dog and five cents for each Ground
Squirrel killed, ra.usea to, he. killed or
slain and proof made thereof as in this
act provided; but no bounty shall be
paid on any prairie dog or ground squir-
rel when less number than ten skins
are presented at one time, and such
skins last mentioned shall be by such
Probate Judge or Justice of the Peace
then and there destroyed. The Probate
Judge or Justice of the Peace shall re-
ceive from the party receiving the certi-
ficate the sum of one cent for each skin
so destroyed. And the board of county
commissioners of each county of this
Territory is hereby authorized and en-
powered to appropriate from the general
fund of the county, not to exceed seven
hundred and fifty dollars each year to
be expended b7 some competent per-
son, at the time and place selected by
said board, and under its direction
in killing and exterminating prairie
dogs and ground squirrels and in pro-
curing such materials and machinery
as said board may deem necessary the
said sum or so much thereof as may be
necessary to be appropriated only upon
the petition of not less than twenty-five
householders of the county residing iu
vicinity of the place where the petition
asks that said work shall be performed.